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A complete body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the…A compleat body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the…
A complete body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the Assembly's Shorter catechism wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are unfolded, their truth confirmed, their excellence displayed, their usefulness improved; contrary errors & vices refuted & exposed, objections answered, controversies settled, cases of conscience resolved; and a great light thereby reflected on the present age. / By the Reverend & learned Samuel Willard, M.A. late Pastor of the South Church in Boston, and vice-president of Harvard College in Cambridge, in New-England. ; Prefaced by the pastors of the same church. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]A compleat body of divinity in two hundred and fifty expository lectures on the Assembly's Shorter catechism wherein the doctrines of the Christian religion are unfolded, their truth confirm'd, their excellence display'd, their usefulness improv'd; contrary errors & vices refuted & expos'd, objections answer'd, controversies settled, cases of conscience resolv'd; and a great light thereby reflected on the present age. / By the Reverend & learned Samuel Willard, M.A. late Pastor of the South Church in Boston, and vice-president of Harvard College in Cambridge, in New-England. ; Prefac'd by the pastors of the same church. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
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AN EXPOSITION OF THE ASSEMBLY's SHORTER CATECHISM: IN Two Hundred a… › Sermon 33 (Question 8)
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I. CONCERNING the general Nature of Efficiency, take these Conclusions.
1. THE Efficient is a Cause from which the thing is. For he communicates his Virtue unto the Effect. As Christ once said, Virtue is gone ••t from me; so God, in all his Works, sends out Virtue from Himself, and communicates it to the Creature; so that all things are virtue ally in Him as their Efficient cause; as, Rom. 11.36. Of him, and through' him, and to him […] all things—.
1. THE Efficient is a Cause from which the thing is. For he communicates his Vertue unto the Effect. As Christ once said, Vertue is gone ••t from me; so God, in all his Works, sends out Vertue from Himself, and communicates it to the Creature; so that all things are vert• ally in Him as their Efficient cause; as, Rom. 11.36. Of him, and thro' him, and to him 〈…〉 all things—.
2. THE Work of the Efficient is to Prepare the Matter, bring in the Form, and Finish the Thing; so making it fit for the attainment of his End. Thus •s see in Artificial Works, as of the Carpenter in building an House; &c. And thus God doth Work Artificially in all the things that be doth.